The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established as a nonprofit organization in Luxembourg in February, 1995. ELRA is the driving force to make the language resources for language engineering available and to evaluate language engineering technologies. In order to achieve this goal, ELRA is active in identification, distribution, collection, validation, standardization and improvement, in promoting the production of language resources, in supporting the infrastructure to perform evaluation campaigns and in developing a scientific field of language resources and evaluation. These activities are achieved through ELRA's operational body ELDA (Evaluation & Language resources Distribution Agency).